Complete all assigned reading before coming to class. Please keep in mind that all reading assignments are subject to change. All page numbers refer to the editions/ISBNs that I have ordered.  For some readings, you will find the text in Reserves Direct (RD).

—–Week 1—–

Digital Humanities = Screwing Around

Jan. 15 W       

• First Day of Class
• Introductions, Syllabus

Jan. 17 F

• Register a Domain (http://www.reclaimhosting.com)
• Alexis C. Madrigal, “How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood.” 2 Jan. 2014.
  
• Stephen Ramsay. “The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or What You Do with a Million Books.” 17 April 2010.

—–Week 2—–

Jan. 20 M 

• Martin Luther King Day
• Work on website

Mapping Digital Humanities

Jan. 22 W  

• Franco Moretti. “Models for an Abstract Literary History—2.”

Jan. 24 F    

• Jhumpa Lahiri. “Sexy.” In Interpreter of Maladies. New York: Houghton, 1999. (RD)
• Jorge Luis Borges. “Museum: On Exactitude in Science.” In Collected Fictions. Trans. Andrew Hurley. New York: Viking, 1999. (RD)

—–Week 3—–

Jan. 27 M  

• Google Earth / Neatline overview
• Stephen Ramsay. “Who’s In and Who’s Out.” Stephen Ramsay. 8 Jan. 2011.
• Stephen Ramsay. “On Building.” Stephen Ramsay. 11 Jan. 2011.

Jan. 29 W

• SNOW!!!!1!

Jan. 31 F

• Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway, 3-48

—–Week 4—–

Feb. 3 M

• Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 48-102
• John Unsworth. “Scholarly Primitives.” Transcript of a presentation. 13 May 2000.

Feb. 5 W

• Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 102-151

Feb. 7 F

• Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, 151-end

—–Week 5—–

The Intentional Fallacy

 Feb. 10 M

• Franco Moretti. “Models for an Abstract Literary History—1.”

Feb. 12 W

• MOAR SNOW!!!!!

Feb. 14 F

• Dalloway presentations

—–Week 6—–

Feb. 17 M

• Dalloway presentations

Feb. 19 W

• Carol Ann Duffy, The Other Country, 7-27

 Feb. 21 F

• Class canceled; work on MARBL project

—–Week 7—–

Feb. 24 M

• Duffy, The Other Country, 28-55

Feb. 26 W

• Duffy, The Other Country, wrap-up
• Jean-Baptiste Michel, et al. “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books.” Science. 16 Dec. 2010.

Feb. 28 F 

• Carol Ann Duffy, The World’s Wife, 1-29

—–Week 8—–

Mar. 3 M     

• Duffy,The World’s Wife, 30-55

Mar. 5 W  

• Duffy, The World’s Wife, 56-76

Mar. 7 F 

• Class canceled; work on paper / MARBL assignment

—–Week 9—–

Mar. 10–14      Spring Break

—–Week 10—–

Reading on a Networked Device

Mar. 17 M  

• Duffy Paper Due
• Duffy project

Mar. 19 W 

• Duffy project

Mar. 21 F    

• Duffy project

—–Week 11—–

Reading in a Network

Mar. 24 M      

• Mark Sample. “The Digital Humanities is Not About Building, It’s About Sharing.” SampleReality.com. 25 May 2011.

Mar. 26 W   

• Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves, front cover – 23
  • N.B. You can choose whether or not you read all the materials—prefatory, cover, appendixes, footnotes, exhibits—as you come to them. However, you must eventually read them all.

Mar. 28 F        

• House of Leaves, 24-106

—–Week 12—–

Mar. 31 M  

• House of Leaves, 107-245

Apr. 2 W  

• House of Leaves, 246-312

Apr. 4 F 

• House of Leaves, 313-383
• Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Introduction from Remediation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. (RD)

—–Week 13—–

Apr. 7 M  

• House of Leaves, 384-490

Apr. 9 W   

• House of Leaves, 491-528

Apr. 11 F 

• House of Leaves, catch-up day

—–Week 14—–

How to (Not) Read All of Hemingway

Apr. 14 M

• AMBP wrap-up

Apr. 16 W   

• Hemingway, “Hills Like White Elephants,” “Big Two-Hearted River, Part I,” “Big Two-Hearted River, Part II,” “Now I Lay Me” (RD)

Apr. 18 F     

• Hemingway, “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” “The Sea Change,” “Canary for One,”  “The End of Something” (RD)

—–Week 15—–

Apr. 21 M   

• Hemingway, “A Very Short Story,” “The Butterfly and the Tank,” “Black Ass at the Cross Roads,” (RD)
• Matthew L. Jockers, “The LDA Buffet is Now Open; or, Latent Dirichlet Allocation for English Majors.” 29 Sept. 2011.

Apr. 23 W   

• Hemingway, “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife” and “Summer People”

Apr. 25 F    

• Hemingway Project

—–Week 16—–

Apr. 28 M

• Hemingway Project

—–Finals—–

May 1 Th 

• Final Exam, 8:00-10:30am